Censorship

Pro-Iranian hacking group Handala claims breaching ex-IDF chief Halevi's phone

The group also published footage that appears to show Halevi holding meetings with senior Arab officials, including those from Qatar and Jordan.

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 28, 2025.
Paivi Rasanen (R), member of the Finnish Parliament, testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2026.

Finland's Supreme Court fines MP for calling homosexuality 'developmental disorder'

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr testifies before a hearing of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 14, 2026.

FCC's Carr threatens broadcasters who do not 'operate in public interest' will lose licenses

Security forces deploy to guard a rally in support of Iran's new supreme leader at Enghelab Square in central Tehran on March 9, 2026.

Behind Tehran's blackout: How CNN's access to Iran may come with a price - opinion


Lithuania continues Soviet-style censorship 30 years post-independence

Holocaust distortion is so prevalent in Lithuania, which has initiated and led many of the initiatives in Eastern Europe to rewrite the narrative of World War II and the Holocaust.

A monument honoring the victims of the Ponary massacre near Vilnius, Lithuania

Mother Palestine can’t go online, cartoon by Carlos Latuff says

The cartoon shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas unplugging a computer.

Carlos Latuff

Israel in top 20 countries whose governments censor online data - report

The report found that the Israeli government made more than 5,500 content removal requests to tech giants in roughly the last decade.

‘FACEBOOK, GOOGLE and Twitter remove some things, but usually society is not disturbed by defamation.’

Shut up, Shakespeare, Part 2

It’s not looking great for Shakespeare. Should he ripped out of textbooks in the Holy Land? Depends on whom you ask.

William Shakespeare

Livni slams Bnei Brak bylaw banning billboards with women’s photos

Meretz leader Tamar Zandberg is also a victim of billboard censoring.

Hatnua leader Tzipi Livni in a video discussing the ban on depicting women on billboards in Bnei Brak, 2019.

Between the freedom and security of information

The Spokesperson’s Unit and Military Censor have completely collapsed.

IDF forces on the Gaza border, November 13, 2018

Behind Kuwait's rising book censorship

Despite a constitution that protects freedom of expression, many Kuwaitis fear that an Islamist bloc in parliament will impose stricter bans

THE KUWAITI censors prohibited an encyclopedia depicting Michelangelo’s celebrated nude sculpture of ‘David’...

Iran’s humiliated Instagram dancer stirs a backlash

Maedeh Hojabri’s public shaming seems to have stirred the opposite reaction for which the regime was hoping.

(R) Solmaz Eikder, a female activist and Iranian refugee, dances on the street of Istanbul, in the protest against the arrest of Iranian teenager, Maedeh Hojabri, who was posting dance videos on Instagram. (L) A man dances in the protest against the arrest  Maedeh Hojabri

IDF Military Censor banned nearly 300 articles last year

The Military Censor works in an outdated mode, even if some secrets are legitimate, expert says.

IDF computing school

IDF Military Censor banned nearly 300 articles last year

The Military Censor works in an outdated mode, even if some secrets are legitimate, expert says.

A woman is seen through a coffee shop window as she reads an article about Ben Zygier in an Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper in Jerusalem, February 15, 2013.